Rick Larsen actually said...

I believe there is room--maybe not as much as the President believes, but there--I believe there is some room.

What you are proposing, it puts them in line to get Federal funding. Help yourself, and then they will give you that Federal help.

I just don't think you need to move to a different way of helping out local entities that are already doing what you are asking them to do.

Our aviation system is safe, safer than it has ever been before.